I agree. My grandmother taught me how to knit and sew. But the point I am making is there isnt a demand for kintters and sewers in the job market. There is however a demand for people that know how to run the automatick knitting and sewing machines...do you get what I am saying?
I suspect I have more experience by a few decades than you do. Moreover I read a whole lot, and never let my mind rest from constant exploration of why, what, how. Far more than the normal person — three sigmas at least off norm. I’ve observed and digested.
In my age, I see the value of small things, small kindnesses, small basic skills, small “pastimes” and “hobbies”, small choices for the good, small and simple knowledge and incessant reinforcements of what is good. Small prayers. Those are foundational. Single mothers, nearly all, come to that state because they lack foundationals.
Without those foundations, those foundational basic daily actions and skills — there’s no almost hope and little long term success rate of building a more sophisticated set of “job skills”.